ss/cont steam greenlit?

[a tool]

i uh.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=144913037


there's also a thread on facepage. if you don't facespace, you're not missing much.

important excerpt:


i don't understand who the "we're" is. does someone in-the-know have more information on this? 

also, this probably means a whole lot of nothing. here's a picture of a square watermelon.

[Nude For Satan]

People have been making a new client since the dawn of time. Believe it when I see it.

Steam Greenlight might slightly increase visibility for the game (I believe it's just going to be a change so that you can start Subspace/Continuum from an installer gained through Steam - as opposed to adding it as a non-steam game link), but as far as I can tell this is all it is.

I had heard that Steam don't put games on their system unless the source code is available (which seems rather wtf to me, if I was developing a game I would rather like to keep my source code close to my chest). Considering that the source code for Continuum is basically never going to be available save for some amazing turnaround by a bloke who's almost forgotten he'd made it and has more important things to do with his time, I don't see it becoming "available" to Steam in any great rush.

Maybe if the installer was rewritten, and it's source code was available, then that's how it can be greenlit. I dunno. All I know is Run/Stop and "Press Play On Tape".

Now, if the installer is being rewritten (one new installer to rule them all and in the darkness bind them), is there anyway this can resolve the connection issue to Chaos/4v4 Zone? Because I have a laundry list of old players who are waiting for instructions on how to get Chaos to be connectable again - where in their cases all the other workarounds have failed.

[treachen]

That is a surprise. I'm guessing it hasn't evolved past where it was when it was first submitted back in 2013. There was an active forum the developers used to be on before we switched over to this site. Anyone know if they migrated somewhere else?

[Nude For Satan]

The old forum you are speaking of would have subspace.co which has of course gone. We took SVS here but much of the rest was replicated at http://www.subspaceforum.com/forum/index

Dunno if the developers of those alt clients etc kept on going there or not. That forum doesn't look too lively unfortunately.

[Nude For Satan]

There's a bit of discussion about it on the Facebook group @ https://www.facebook.com/groups/subspace.continuum/10152641128662336

Edit: About the greenlighting, that is

[Bargeld]

(01-07-2015, 04:10 PM)Nude For Satan Wrote:  I had heard that Steam don't put games on their system unless the source code is available

This. Kinda. And other stuff.

To get a game on steam, you will need to use their SDK to add steam integration. No one has source to be able to add this integration then recompile. It might be possible to build a wrapper around continuum.exe like how the resizer works.

Also, they require the person submitting it to be the copyright owners. So uh... yeah.

http://steamcommunity.com/workshop/about/?appid=765&section=faq#developers

Quote:Are there any restrictions on what can be posted?

Your game must not contain offensive material or violate copyright or intellectual property rights.

[a tool]

natural steam integration with ss would be nice.

[Benji]

What about Continuum's other programmer, Mr. Ekted (I know Crescendo talked to him recently)?  Anyone know his opinion on getting it on Steam?

[Arctos]

What happened to this project?

http://ss-discretion.sourceforge.net/

[treachen]

(01-12-2015, 10:44 PM)Arctos Wrote:  What happened to this project?

http://ss-discretion.sourceforge.net/

I'm guessing these quotes turned out to be true.

"This project will fail because you will stop working on it."~ The Apache

"I am laughing because there is no way this will work."~ SOS

"No new clients will work with any of the major servers. Go away."~ Mr Ekted